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Jada Pinkett Smith scored a 5-figure sum for her attorney's fees in the legal battle with Will Smith’s alleged ex-pal, Bilaal Salaam ... TMZ has learned.

According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge awarded the "Red Table Talk" host $32,836 in legal fees, although Jada requested $49,181 before the judge reduced the amount.

As we previously reported, Bilaal sued Jada, claiming he suffered emotional distress due to alleged threats from Jada and her associates. He claims to have been friends with Will for decades and says he was called up by the Smith team to help with damage control after the actor slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.

FKA Twigs was told early on by an indie band to leave the past behind and pick a new musical moniker ... according to emails the band says it sent back and forth with her in 2013.

Here's the deal ... back in March, FKA sued the band The Twigs -- an indie group formed by sisters Laura and Linda Good in 1994 -- claiming they'd sent her a series of cease and desist letters demanding she either stop using her stage name or pay them more than $1 million in compensation.

The Twigs fired off a countersuit against FKA for trademark infringement last week ... claiming, over the last few years, the star has stopped using "FKA" and simply gone by "Twigs."

Jalen Hurts' absence from A.J. Brown's wedding might not be as spicy as folks are making it out to be ... 'cause NFL legend Julio Jones tells TMZ Sports he, too, got invited to the nuptials -- and even though the groom is a good friend, he unfortunately couldn't make it either.

The superstar Eagles receiver and Kelsey Riley tied the knot over the weekend in Laguna Beach ... and a lot of chatter has been about how his QB was MIA from the ceremony, despite their friendship dating back to high school and Jalen being A.J.'s daughter's godfather.

The popular narrative online is that their football issues might have caused a major rift in their personal lives.

Alex Hall could be leaving Orange County listings behind for luxury real estate in the Hollywood Hills ... 'cause TMZ has learned she's in talks to join "Selling Sunset" as a full-time cast member for season 10.

Sources familiar with the conversations tell TMZ ... Hall, Netflix, and the series producers are actively negotiating a deal that would bring her into the flagship franchise as filming begins in Los Angeles this week.

Our sources say Hall makes a natural fit for the series ... despite living in Orange County, she already works with a number of high-end L.A. clients.

Federal agents tore through Gabbie Gonzalez's home to search phones, SD cards, and Apple devices during a raid connected to the alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill Jack Avery ... and TMZ has obtained video and documents from the operation.

The footage of the November 2022 raid shows Gonzalez's then-husband Cody Clayburn outside the home talking to FBI agents, who explained why they were there. You can hear Cody express concern about whether Gabbie -- who was inside the house -- was okay.

According to the documents, obtained by TMZ, agents seized 12 items during the operation ... including a MacBook, several iPhones, SD cards and thumb drives ... suggesting investigators were aggressively hunting for potential digital evidence.

YUNGBLUD's team is firing back after Machine Gun Kelly savagely blasted the singer in an alleged viral social media comment taking aim at his ill-fated tour.

Here's the deal ... the drama started after YUNGBLUD posted a video saying "live music has become inaccessible," part of his push for cheaper fan experiences through projects like BLUDFEST.

MGK responded with a blistering, alleged since-deleted comment accusing YUNGBLUD of canceling a tour because he "couldn’t sell tickets" while publicly blaming mental health struggles. He also mocked YUNGBLUD's ticket prices before ending the tirade with a profanity laced insult, calling him a "silver spooned preachy wanker."

Now, a rep for YUNGBLUD tells TMZ ... "Dom has not commented directly as he is so busy focusing on his sold-out North American tour and finishing his next album."

The rep adds ... "He genuinely hasn’t got time to engage in any of this but we wish MGK the very best."

The clash is especially shocking considering MGK and YUNGBLUD were once practically inseparable during the pop-punk revival era ... constantly collaborating, appearing together and running in the same Travis Barker circle.

Mary Bonnet, Emma Hernan, Chelsea Lazkani, and Sofia Vergara's sister, Sandra Vergara, are out at "Selling Sunset" ... 'cause TMZ has learned the ladies will not be returning for season 10 of the hit Netflix reality series.

Sources connected to the series tell TMZ ... the four cast members were informed back in April that their contracts would not be renewed ahead of production on the upcoming season, which begins filming this week in Los Angeles.

We're told Bre Tiesi and Amanza Smith are both returning for the new season ... alongside original cast members Christine Quinn and Heather El Moussa.

Influencer Gabbie Gonzalez unsuccessfully tried to get a former MMA fighter to intimidate her baby daddy, Jack Avery ... before she decided to look for a hit man to take him out, according to the criminal complaint. 

According to court docs obtained by TMZ, Gabbie and her pal Kai Cordrey, who is also charged over the alleged scheme to have a hit man kill Jack, went to Dustin Barca, a former professional fighter and boxing trainer. Dustin has a 4-0 record in his pro career. 

Gabbie and Kai tried to convince Dustin on March 23, 2021, to threaten, scare, or force Jack to leave Kauai, per the criminal complaint. 

The alleged plot to kill Jack Avery wasn't supposed to look like a murder at all ... at least according to cops, who say Gabbie Gonzalez talked about making it look like a deadly car crash.

That particular part of the alleged plot is interesting because, as it turns out, Gabbie's accused co-conspirator in the murder for hire plot is her father, Francisco Gonzalez ... who is a longtime personal injury lawyer. Police say Francisco actually bankrolled the alleged hit.

According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, investigators say a witness told them Gabbie and her friend Kai Cordrey discussed the alleged hit as "potentially going down in Los Angeles and being made to look like a car accident."

Influencer Gabbie Gonzalez's estranged husband appears to be celebrating her arrest for an alleged conspiracy to kill the father of her child, and her former nanny/roommate is also a key witnesses in the case.

According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, McKenzie Ferry and Cody Clayburn are witnesses who spoke to cops investigating the case ... and told them boy band singer Jack Avery was the target.

A source with direct knowledge tells us ... McKenzie is the former live-in nanny for Gabbie ... and she first alerted authorities to the alleged murder-for-hire plot back in 2021.

Kim Scott was allegedly staggering, slurring her words and blowing nearly three times the legal limit during her latest DUI arrest ... TMZ has learned.

According to the police report, obtained by TMZ, officers say Eminem's ex-wife appeared unsteady on her feet, had slurred speech and smelled strongly of alcohol after allegedly crashing into a parked car in Chesterfield Township, Michigan last week.

Police say Kim admitted she'd been drinking earlier in the night before agreeing to a preliminary breath test and according to the report, she blew a .204 BAC ... more than 2.5 times Michigan's legal limit of .08.

Lil Poppa -- a popular rapper based out of Jacksonville, Florida -- died in February ... and now his official cause of death has been released.

According to documents from the Fulton County coroner, obtained by TMZ ... the rapper -- real name Janarious Mykel Wheeler -- died from a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the left side of his head. He was in the passenger's seat. A toxicology report is pending.

Hapeville Chief of Police Bruce Hedley previously told TMZ ... Lil Poppa was in a single-car accident on Interstate 85 south of Hapeville, Georgia ... shortly after his manager came to meet him ... and that is when he shot himself.

Steve Shirilla is pushing back on the firestorm surrounding Netflix's documentary about his daughter ... insisting his comments about marijuana were twisted and people have misunderstood what he was trying to say.

Check it out ... Steve joined us on “TMZ Live” after being placed on paid leave from his Ohio Catholic school teaching job following backlash over "The Crash" ... centered around his daughter, Mackenzie Shirilla, who was convicted of murder in the 2022 crash that killed her boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend Davion Flanagan.

A major point of controversy has been Steve's remarks in the doc about Mackenzie smoking marijuana as a teenager ... but he says that interpretation is off base ... telling us the filmmakers condensed days of interviews into a few short sound bites and left out important context.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will almost certainly have inked a prenup before their summer wedding ... and if they do, it's all about location, location, location.

Taylor and Travis check all the boxes for a couple that needs a prenup ... there is so much money on the line, plus they are both active money earners. Taylor is worth an estimated $2 billion and Travis comes in at $90 million.

Picking a state where the prenup is drafted will be just as important as picking out a wedding venue. The laws governing prenups vary from state to state, and these prenups typically say the law of the state where it's written will apply, regardless of where they end up living.